I've installed 9.0 Release into a Virtual PC instance. I've set the machine as using NAT, however I don't seem to be able to get a DHCP assigned IP and when I attempt to ping outwards, or get ports etc. it is clear that I'm not getting a network connection.

I don't see that as available in settings in Virtual PC though. NAT is, the other settings are two pertaining to a previous install of VirtualBox that I had and one pertaning to my VPN software for work.

I've installed 9.0 Release into a Virtual PC instance. I've set the machine as using NAT, however I don't seem to be able to get a DHCP assigned IP and when I attempt to ping outwards, or get ports etc. it is clear that I'm not getting a network connection.

I don't see that as available in settings in Virtual PC though. NAT is, the other settings are two pertaining to a previous install of VirtualBox that I had and one pertaning to my VPN software for work.

IMHO, it appears to me that most of the virtualization uses NAT in the default setup as soon as I changed my setting to bridged everything worked instantly. I had very similar issues with QEMU. I gave up on the QEMU and settle for VirtualBox, Windows 7 and IE runs great on the other system it was very slow and IE actually streaked up and donw the page.